I give my rusty 2 cents to this thread..
Pardon me for my awfull english and be patient.
i read almost all the pages and i find a lot of things right and some disturbing, and are from rp players, so…
pvp vs pve vs rp, is just fried air, but i come from a long experience into UO, and i never loose that mentality…
Being pked sometimes was a more rp experience than every pve in the world.. Cause those pkers a lot of time are simply genious of rp.And i always thinked that Playing as a criminal is the ultimate hard work.. for a roleplayer, so i want pvp into a MMORPG, if well implemented is one of the most rp things, ever…
Casual or not roleplayers vs idiots.. well is an old thing, there’ no mmorpg without idiots, things are more simple for groups, you stay togheter and the idiots abitually go away..
Is not a nice thing that reports for insults have not immediate measures.. (a couple of gm x world would be a nice thing.. and few days of ban is always a nice antidot for idiots)
For alone (like me ) or casual rplayers, well guys if u read…
Simply continue the way u are, don’t give up, do more… involve people around you, and u see someone will play. (more sometimes than u think).
I do Rp everywhere i find interesting.. asking charrs if they vomit ball of fur, or asking to Norms how’s the weather up there, or recit the drunk in tavern,
Or starting to question why the gods make me catch rabbits.. for few coins… when there’s others on that event..
My pg is scared by spiders.. and i’ve got the satisfaction having other players have a lot of fun.. (and risk to die) watching my warrior run here and there.. saying irrepetible things.. about destiny and spiders…
Everything pass into my mind in that moment.. is my way… and i’ve to say by now (i’m into Gw2 from a month) i’ve see people running without listening, a lot of people reply, ( some very funny), someone insulting.. someone asking why i’m rp and so on..
One thing is true, more we are rp less the insult will come, and even who never roleplay maybe could stay at some jocke.. is a start..
Rplayers have not to gettoise themeselves, is a bad thing.. better ignore, or in the baddest situation simply fight back to idiots..
I for example started to fart and burp for a good 5 minutes…to a very annoying one, that call me in a lot of not so nice way, cause i’m doing my show to an Npc…
He learned the lesson.. i think.. and more he say things about rp and me, more i have fun of him, without insulting, simply playing.. the annoying drunk…..
(and i admit have a nice help from other people near there after a bit, a lot of them then saying they not rp but understand the thing)..
For guilds megaservers is technical issue, and a true one ,couldn’t be all into the same istance is a big trouble, as is for the ones that would organise something fun somewhere.. for all the players..
Maybe more than a flag on players , i hope for a flag on places..
So for example we have queensdale (yes i’m a low level) open as have to be, and choose for cities dungeons and so on…
If a rplayers want rp .. could, if a casual rplayers would rp could , and the ones that vomit when see rp could have all the space they want…
Is a matter of how many could a single instance of eg divinity’s reach could support at once…
But with a choose on place, a.net could see how many we are, and if rplayers are so few, will be not a problem “all into an istance”, if we are a lot, well the istance created would have the same kind of players, maybe they could filter for guilds giving them a priority (requested by the guild chief).. to enter all the present members, ito a single istance..
so casual rp could be distribuited into the various rp istances, and guilds won’t have members out..
some could loose those events created by someone? a sub-istance could be created.. for events.. (and that would be a nice touch by a.net)… so who want to go to a players event somwhere into a city could….
I think is a viable solution, not perfect but cause use the mechanism a.net builded, maybe could be done..
Good luck to all and if u see a warrior that run away from spiders saying bad words to them.. for sure it’s me.. loose a bit of time with me freely. levelling could wait..